- The next morning, Theophania hunts down Headpriestess Marta to confirm that she can use the apothecary facilities to experiment on a topical ointment that would make other people listen a little better
- Osiris goes to find the finance person of the Temple, Norman an old human man, to inquire as to whether or not she has a salary
- Norman hasn't left the Temple grounds in like decades, and he certainly doesn't know anything about slimes or murders
- Osiris could get funds for equipment she wants if she gets a form signed by a senior officer of the temple and turns it in
- Raiàn, Lyrielle, and Rusty meet the bartender of the Black Dog at a park in the nicer part of town near the confluence of the rivers
- Lyrielle actively hides that she's there as backup if Raiàn gets jumped
- Rusty stays nearby, but not like he's part of the conversation, just to prevent Raiàn from getting jumped
- The bartender (short human woman - her grandmother is a halfling) will get a gold piece if her information is good, and she has a beef with Jimmy as he's made her life hell since she got there (He's a groper)
- Jimmy is trying to pull something at the docks tonight (Pier 6), and he seems like a real dangerous dude
- She knew Wally by sight, and saw him play cards with Jimmy a lot, and he brought in beer all the time
- Rusty and Raiàn have a talk about what makes a villain and whether killing a person is the worst thing you could do to them
- Theophania walks all day to get to the Proudmead Apiary to talk to Zenphina and Cormo.
- Zenphina hasn't heard anything about Jimmy and Wally
- She talks to Cormo about flowers and which ones might have a scent sweet enough but subtle enough for the ointment she wants to try to make
- He thinks the Red Mountain Pipe from way up north might do the trick, but it doesn't grow around here
- He also gives her a nice bottle of their best mead
- Osiris talks to Birel about how she would need him to fill out a form to get funds and how this hasn't come up in the over one hundred years she's been living and working in the Temple
- Birel says he'll think of something
- Osiris then heads to the boarding house to see what they might have learned
- They head to the docks area just after dark
- Theophania sets an Alarm spell (as a ritual) about 10' up Pier 6 then she hides in the nearest bunch of crates to the pier in question
- Rusty climbs down the ladder and swims over to one of Pier 6's support posts, but when he tries to grab it and hold on, he just slides down to the bottom of the river. He finds a crate that someone dropped, which he ties a rope around and then climbs up the steep river bank
- Lyrielle examines the nearby warehouse - She doesn't see or hear anything from the door, so she walks around the building and listens for something
- Raiàn over to the boat docked at Pier 5 and pretends like she's working by sitting and pretending to be writing on some parchment
- Osiris hides in some boxes at the next pier over
- They wait for hours and then the Alarm spell goes off in Theophania's head
- Lyrielle, Osiris, and Raiàn see them coming as one of them is carrying a lantern.
- They go into the warehouse and Lyrielle hears them say "It's these right here. These are the ones." Then they open up some barrels.
- Tiff leaves her crate pile and goes to a crack in the wall where she can see lantern light and then they start moving the barrels to the part of the warehouse closest to the ship. She could not see what was in the barrels they opened.
- Osiris sneaks over to Tiff and tells her to get ready to hide really quickly. Then she casts Thaumaturgy to make it sound like a guard calls out "Who goes there?" And then she and Tiff duck around the corner.
- The guys in the warehouse go on alert, pull weapons, and check the doors.
- Jimmy sends one of the guys to take a look around the building
- Rusty comes up out of the water right around the time the dude starts checking the perimeter. He freezes and pretends to be a rock and is not seen.
- Lyrielle back flips gracefully into the deep shadows.
- They spend like another hour and a half moving the boxes and barrels around
- Lyrielle hears Jimmy say that Lindella gave him this crap job and then they head out.
- After they wait for them to leave, they go inside and investigate the barrels. They are stamped with the logo of the Butterbeer Brewery and they are filled with what look like orcish made weapons. This is not explicitly illegal, but it is sheisty
- They close the first barrel and open a second one, and it's full of orcish axes.
- They close that one up too.
- They decide to have Rusty write an anonymous tip to the town guard about the weapons cache since no one would know his handwriting
- Theophania helps Rusty haul up the crate with Physics! and they find it is full of bottle of a pretty decent wine
- They decide to send it back with Rusty's since he found it
- When Osiris gets back to her room, she finds a pouch of money (125 GP) with a note saying her stipend requisition has been approved and future payments will be
- 500 XP ea for 2,350 XP total ea.
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